It started out innocently enough. My friends and I getting together for dinner. We try to do that every few weeks and it's usually pretty casual. This time it evolved into a whole theme dinner revolving around a simple email from S saying she would bring Cuban Stir Fry. Pretty soon, with emails flying back and forth, it became a full Cuban dinner. One of the emails included a link to this website where I found a Mojito Cake recipe. The dinner host, K, found a really, really yummy recipe for an avocado lobster appetizer on the same site.
Just look at those babies!
Oh man, they were so good. She made them with shrimp instead of lobster, which would have cost $60. I loved them with shrimp. They would be good with crab too.
J brought all the fixin's for Mojitos. They were very refreshing and tasty!
The salad was provided by F. It paired very nicely with the meal and was an explosion of flavors.
S brought some wine she made. It was a fruity tasting white wine. F and I really enjoyed it. I don't usually like white wine, so that was an accomplishment. She also brought the main dish. It was a Cuban Stir fry with lots of colorful peppers, talk about an explosion of flavors!
The other J brought beans and rice... So yummy!
Just look at that dinner! And then came dessert.
While the food cooked we all caught up. The only time we are all together is usually at these dinners, even though some of us see each other more often. We mostly talked about our kids at this dinner.
We had the cutest male join us for dinner...
His name is Tsavo and it was love at first site.
By the time we relaxed to the living room K's husband had come home and we were getting loopy from being up so late. We all lasted until after 11pm!!! Who says we're old?!
This was S ordering me to not put these pics on my blog! Anything taken after this point will stay safely on my computer, unless I need them for blackmailing! Let's just say cup sizes were discussed with examples...
I love getting together with these women, we have the best time!
*I'll post the Moijto cake recipe with some pics tomorrow*
What a fun group! And that Cuban stir fry looks delish!!
Posted by: The Incredible Woody | August 26, 2009 at 06:17 AM
Tasty dinner .. what good times!
Posted by: Daryl | August 26, 2009 at 07:10 AM
Yum City.
Posted by: Mental P Mama | August 26, 2009 at 08:21 AM
All of the food looks delicious! Glad you enjoyed your mojitos, they sure are tasty. And can't wait to see the recipe for mojito cake.
Posted by: Meg | August 26, 2009 at 08:36 AM
Love the pics, especially the ones of Tsavo and also the final one where everyone seems to be having their own conversation. Must do again soon, maybe another theme meal?
Posted by: JWinters | August 26, 2009 at 10:09 AM
It looks fantastic--and like a really great time.
Posted by: Jenn @ The Women's Colony | August 26, 2009 at 10:04 PM
Yummy sounding dinner! My mom just e-mailed me a recipe for something called "Cuban hash" that they love (ground meat with seasonings, olives, raisins, and I forget what else).
Posted by: Robin from Israel | August 27, 2009 at 12:19 PM